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$10.84NAV as of 9/13/2019

($0.03) / -0.28%Daily NAV Change

Fund Summary

Managing interest rate risk with income potential

Invests primarily in high-quality corporate bonds, which typically have greater yield potential than government securities of the same maturity, albeit with greater risk.

Duration

The Fund invests in short-term bonds, which generally have lower interest-rate sensitivity profiles than longer-term securities.

Diversification

Bond funds can offer income and diversification to an all-equity portfolio.

Morningstar Style Box

LTD

MOD

EXT

High

Medium

Low

Portfolio Management

Susan K. Regan

— Ivy Investment Management Company

— 5 Years with Fund

— 32 Years in Industry

Susan Regan is portfolio manager of Ivy Limited-Term Bond Fund, Ivy VIP Limited-Term Bond and fixed income institutional accounts. She was named co-portfolio manager of the funds in 2014 and has held sole portfolio manager responsibilities since 2015. She was named co-portfolio manager of Ivy Government Securities Fund in 2018. On an interim basis as of April 2018, Ms. Regan is co-portfolio manager of Ivy Bond Fund, Ivy Crossover Credit Fund, Ivy Balanced Fund, Ivy VIP Bond and Ivy VIP Balanced. Ms. Regan joined the organization in 2007 as a fixed income investment analyst and trader. She was appointed assistant vice president and named assistant portfolio manager in 2010. Ms. Regan had been co-portfolio manager of Ivy VIP Bond, and the former Waddell & Reed Advisors Bond Fund and Waddell & Reed Advisors Government Securities Fund from 2014 through April 2015. She was appointed vice president in 2014 and senior vice president in 2017. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Regan was employed by Commerce Bank from 1988 to 2007, where she gained experience trading governments, agencies and mortgage-backed securities. Ms. Regan earned a BA in Economics in 1984 and an MA in Economics in 1985 from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Growth of a $10,000 Investment
through 8/31/2019

Assumes an investment over 10 years or life
of the share class, reinvestment of dividends
and capital gains, and does not include the
effect of sales charges or taxes.

Fund Performance

Data quoted is past performance and current performance may be lower or higher. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an
investment will fluctuate, and shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Class N shares are sold without any front-end sales load or contingent deferred sales charges.

Monthly Rates of Return
Average Annual Total Returns as of 8/31/2019

(Returns for periods of less than 1-yr are not annualized)

YTD

1YR

3YR

5YR

10YR

LIFE

Fund at NAV

4.29%

5.44%

2.16%

2.10%

2.32%

3.37%

BBgBarc US Govt/Credit 1-5 Yr TR USD

4.66%

5.96%

2.12%

2.00%

2.19%

-

Morningstar Short-Term Bond

3.99%

4.44%

2.13%

1.72%

2.28%

-

Quarterly Rates of Return
Average Annual Total Returns as of 6/30/2019

(Returns for periods of less than 1-yr are not annualized)

YTD

1YR

3YR

5YR

10YR

LIFE

Fund at NAV

3.21%

4.85%

1.92%

1.91%

2.42%

3.33%

BBgBarc US Govt/Credit 1-5 Yr TR USD

3.56%

5.34%

1.72%

1.82%

2.24%

-

Morningstar Short-Term Bond

3.20%

4.19%

1.97%

1.60%

2.48%

-

Calendar Year Return

Select Year Range

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2003

Class N

-

0.84

2.41

2.11

1.11

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

BBgBarc US Govt/Credit 1-5 Yr TR USD

1.42

0.97

1.56

1.27

1.38

4.62

4.08

3.14

2.24

0.28

1.85

1.44

4.22

7.27

5.13

3.35

Morningstar Ratingsas
of 8/31/2019

Category: Short-Term Bond

Overall out of 490

★★★★

3 Year out of 490

★★★

5 Year out of 437

★★★★

10 Year out of 277

★★

Ratings are based on risk-adjusted returns.

Morningstar Ranking
through 8/31/2019

Category: Short-Term Bond

Rank

Percentile

1 Year

94 /552

21

3 Year

208 /490

45

5 Year

96 /437

26

Morningstar Ranking / # of Funds in Category displays the fund's actual rank within its Morningstar
Category based on average annual total return and number of Funds in that Category. The Morningstar
Percentile Ranking compares a Fund's Morningstar risk and return scores with all the Funds in the same
Category, where 1% = Best and 100% = Worst.

Expense Ratios
as of 7/31/2019

Net

0.51%

Gross

0.51%

Growth of a $10,000 Investment
through 8/31/2019

Assumes an investment over 10 years or life
of the share class, reinvestment of dividends
and capital gains, and does not include the
effect of sales charges or taxes.

Fund Distributions

Historical Prices
Inception 7/31/2014

Select Year & Month

Date

Price

Dividend Reinvest Date

Capital Gain Reinvest Date

Historical Distributions
Inception 7/31/2014

Select Year Range

Ex-date

Income

Capital Gains

Reinvest Gains

Payment Date

*Special Dividend
The table includes the daily prices at NAV (net asset value) for the history of this
fund's selected share class. NAV is the amount per share you would receive if you
sold shares that day.

Maturity
as a % of fixed income assets as of 8/31/2019

Fixed Income Country Allocation
(as a % of bond holdings as of 8/31/2019)

United States

96.4%

Canada

1.2%

Japan

1.2%

United Kingdom

0.6%

Norway

0.2%

Netherlands

0.2%

South Korea

0.2%

Quality
as a % of fixed income assets as of 8/31/2019

Government Bonds

60.50%

NonRated

0.60%

AAA

0.50%

AA

0.40%

A

10.90%

BBB

26.40%

BB

0.70%

Quality: Our preference is to always use ratings obtained from Standard & Poor's, Moody’s, and Fitch. It is
each Portfolio’s general policy to classify such security at the lower rating level if only two ratings
are available. If more than two ratings are available and a median exists, the median is used. If more
than two ratings exist without a median, the lower of the two middle ratings is used. We do not
evaluate these ratings, but simply assign them to the appropriate credit quality category as determined
by the rating agency.

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Data quoted is past performance and current performance may be lower or higher. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate, and shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Risk Factors: The value of the Fund's shares will change, and you could lose money on your investment. An investment in the Fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Fixed income securities are subject to interest rate risk and, as such, the net asset value of the fund may fall as interest rates rise. These and other risks are more fully described in the Fund's prospectus. Not all funds or fund classes may be offered at all broker/ dealers.

Index Description: The Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 1-5 Year Government/Credit Bond Index is the 1-5 year component of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Government/Credit Index, which includes treasuries, agencies, publicly issued U.S. corporate and foreign debentures & secured notes. To be included in the index, securities must have at least one, and up to, but not including five years to maturity. Source: Bloomberg Barclays

Performance results for some funds may include the effect of expense reduction arrangements. If those arrangements had not been in place, the performance results would have been lower.

Fee Waiver and/or Expense Reimbursement: Through July 31, 2020, IDI and/or WISC have contractually agreed to reimburse sufficient 12b-1 and/or shareholder servicing fees to ensure that the total annual ordinary fund operating expenses of the Class N shares and Class Y shares do not exceed the total annual ordinary fund operating expenses of the Class I shares and Class A shares, respectively, as calculated at the end of each month. Prior to that date, the expense limitation may not be terminated without the consent of the Board.

Pricing: All prices and year-to-date returns are based on closing quotes unless noted, as supplied to the NASDAQ by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time. YTD Prices can be updated 3 to 4 hours after the Daily Pricing information which can result in mismatching data.

Style Analysis: The Morningstar Style Box reveals a fund's investment style. For equity funds the vertical axis shows the market capitalization of the stocks owned and the horizontal axis shows investment style (value, blend, or growth). For fixed-income funds, the vertical axis shows the credit quality of the bonds owned and the horizontal axis shows interest rate sensitivity as measured by a bond's effective duration. Morningstar seeks credit rating information from fund companies on a periodic basis (e.g., quarterly). In compiling credit rating information, Morningstar instructs fund companies to only use ratings that have been assigned by the following Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs): Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Egan-Jones. If two NRSROs have rated a security, fund companies are to report the lowest rating; if three or more NRSROs have rated the same security differently, fund companies are to report the rating that is in the middle. For example, if NRSRO X rates a security AA-, NRSRO Y rates the same security an A and NRSRO Z rates it a BBB+, the fund company should use the credit rating of 'A' in its reporting to Morningstar. PLEASE NOTE: Morningstar, Inc. is not itself an NRSRO nor does it issue a credit rating on the fund. An NRSRO rating on a fixed-income security can change from time-to-time. For credit quality, Morningstar combines the credit rating information provided by the fund companies with an average default rate calculation to come up with a weighted-average credit quality. The weighted-average credit quality is currently a letter that roughly corresponds to the scale used by a leading NRSRO. Bond funds are assigned a style box placement of "low", "medium", or "high" based on their average credit quality. Funds with a low credit quality are those whose weighted-average credit quality is determined to be less than "BBB-"; medium are those less than "AA-", but greater or equal to "BBB-"; and high are those with a weighted-average credit quality of "AA-" or higher. When classifying a bond portfolio, Morningstar first maps the NRSRO credit ratings of the underlying holdings to their respective default rates (as determined by Morningstar's analysis of actual historical default rates). Morningstar then averages these default rates to determine the average default rate for the entire bond fund. Finally, Morningstar maps this average default rate to its corresponding credit rating along a convex curve. For interest-rate sensitivity, Morningstar obtains from fund companies the average effective duration. Generally, Morningstar classifies a fixed-income fund's interest-rate sensitivity based on the effective duration of the Morningstar Core Bond Index (MCBI), which is currently three years. The classification of Limited will be assigned to those funds whose average effective duration is between 25% to 75% of MCBI's average effective duration; funds whose average effective duration is between 75% to 125% of the MCBI will be classified as Moderate; and those that are at 125% or greater of the average effective duration of the MCBI will be classified as Extensive. For municipal bond funds, Morningstar also obtains from fund companies the average effective duration. In these cases static breakpoints are utilized. These breakpoints are as follows: (i) Limited: 4.5 years or less; (ii) Moderate: more than 4.5 years but less than 7 years; and (iii) Extensive: more than 7 years. In addition, for non-US taxable and non-US domiciled fixed income funds static duration breakpoints are used: (i) Limited: less than or equal to 3.5 years; (ii) Moderate: greater than 3.5 and less than equal to 6 years; (iii) Extensive: greater than 6 years.

Unsubsidized yields reflect what the yield would have been without the effect of reimbursements and waivers. The adviser and its affiliates have or may voluntarily waive a portion of their fees (including, but not limited to, distribution and service (12b-1) fees) and reimburse certain expenses. There is no guarantee that the fund will avoid a negative yield. Such undertaking may be amended or withdrawn at any time.

30-Day SEC Yield: is calculated based on a formula mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that calculates a fund's hypothetical annualized income, as a percentage of its assets. A security's income, for the purposes of this calculation, is based on the current market yield to maturity (in the case of bonds) or projected dividend yield (for stocks) of the fund's holdings over a trailing 30 day period. This hypothetical income will differ (at times, significantly) from the fund's actual experience; as a result, income distributions from the fund may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

Quality: Our preference is to always use ratings obtained from Standard & Poor's, Moody’s, and Fitch. It is each Portfolio’s general policy to classify such security at the lower rating level if only two ratings are available. If more than two ratings are available and a median exists, the median is used. If more than two ratings exist without a median, the lower of the two middle ratings is used. We do not evaluate these ratings, but simply assign them to the appropriate credit quality category as determined by the rating agency.

Information is subject to change and is not intended to represent any past or future investment recommendations.

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